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“The bright star cluster [known as an “open cluster”] is known as Melotte15 after its discover, Philibert Jacques Melotte (1880-1961). Melotte 15 is embedded within and illuminates the central portion of the much larger glowing nebula identified as IC 1805. The three bright stars in an arc at the center of this image are type …

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This was my most elusive target until now. Kronberger 61 is a planetary nebula only discovered in 2011 by an amateur astronomer while searching through the kepler satellite imagery. This nebula has a surface brightness of much less than 25 mag/arcsec^2 and therefore is very hard to detect. This image was made using 30 minute …

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Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. (An annotated version can be seen here.) This region is very rich of dark and emission nebulae. On the image also VanDenBergh …

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NGC 7000 is also known as the North America Nebula with the so called Gulf of Mexico. In this area the Cygnus Wall can be found. This part is the Mexican and Middle American  part of the Nebula. It’s one of the most interesting parts of the nebula because this is a region of active …

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Click on image for high resolution The nebula Sh2-101 is better known as the Tulip Nebula. This nebula is strong in H-alpha emissions. The nebula has a distance of about 2000 lightyears from Earth. This image also shows the famous Cygnus X-1 system. Cygnus X-1 is the brightest source of hard X-rays in our sky.  …

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